I got curious, so I looked it up on Alexa: Contact Info for 4tv.com: Interactive Commerce Group, Inc. 901 Fayette St Conshocken, PA 19428 US 610-768-1444 chadlaughlin@gmail.com
From the FAQ, under the Help link: Q: Is this legal? A: Yes, these broadcasts are provided freely by their respective owners, we claim no right to the content that is broadcasted.
I bet 1000$ that rebroadcasting paid programs is illegal. Just like stock quotes. Otherwise others would have done it earlier. Reminds me the dirt cheap musicdownload Russian sites. A song is like 7 cents or so. But Paypal doesn't allow payments anymore because of the questionable legal status, and I am not going to give them CC info... By the way, if you steal cable programming from your neighbour with his knowledge, he could always tell to the cablecompany: "I didn't claim no rights to those programs."
From their site: About Us: At 4tv.com, our goal is simple - provide the highest quality channels available on the internet, at no cost to the viewer. We have consolidated a host of free and legal video feeds to provide the widest range of channels on the internet. We are a public service striving to provide the best content available. Please feel free to contact us for suggestions if you don't find what you are looking for.
They will either suffer from bandwidth problem or someone will pull the plug on them sooner or later.
Suppose I should have keep this little secret for myself.... Somebody that is going to be really happy is Hypo. He was complaining about his favorite porn site not being updated fast enough the other day....
Thanks for posting this! However, for some reason I am not able to get to full-screen mode. I double-click on the screen but nothing happens, and there's nothing in the FAQ to address this. Anyone else have this problem? If so, how did you correct it? Thanks!
I am getting about half of the channels. None of the movie channels loads. (but the adult ones work perfectly) Can you guys watch HBO or other movies? Also if I try to leave the channel open and browse the net in another window, Opera keeps shuting down... I agree that the bandwidth problem is going to kill them once it gets popular. Nasdaq channel, hm, interesting....